Ashlee left the baby at home and took her new blond extensions and her hubby Pete Wentz to PURE in Las Vegas, where she downed champagne and partied the night away to ring in 2009.

She’s lost a lot of the baby weight, but you can tell she’s still being careful to cover up her arms and her tummy. Which is totally fine by me! It’s such a relief to find a celebrity who’s actually human and doesn’t lose the entirety of her baby weight in twelve days. That shit’s insane anyway.

Where are you going to be ringing in 2009?  I’m happy to tell you that I’ll be snowed in on a gluten-free bread bender.  But people who actually have lives have some big plans.  Check it out:

Jennifer Anistonis in Los Cabos with John Mayer, Courteney Cox and David Arquette.  Well, John Mayer is staying at a villa located in close proximity to where Jen is staying with the Arquettes.  He totally strikes me like one of those “We don’t need a title” types.  Bleah.

Lindsay Lohan is hanging out with Samantha Ronson at her deejaying gig at Mansion in South Beach.  Sam is feeling more rested since last week’s hospitalization now that she stopped eating at airport kiosks.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are hosting a party at PURE Nightclub in Vegas.  Technically, she’s Ashlee Simpson-Wentz but I’m preparing for the future when she drops him and the hyphename.

A longer list of New Year’s Eve celeb whereabouts is here and please, Denise Richards made this list?  Like one person in the universe was wondering what she was up to tonight.

Oh, and I just tried the bread and I gotta tell you:  Gluten-free bread is so disgusting.

Rather than hawk the first photos of their baby to the highest bidder, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz debuted the first photos of Bronx on Pete’s website, Friends or Enemies, with a note encouraging readers to donate to one of several suggested charities (including the Richie Madden Foundation).

Ya know, the more I learn about Pete Wentz, the more I think he’s probably a wicked smart and downright decent dude. Great catch, Ashlee.

Pete Wentz must be insecure.  Because it’s always the insecure ones that feel the need to share every detail of their life with anyone who will listen.  The newest example?  During a SIRIUS radio interview, he revealed that he has tried Ashlee’s breast milk and it’s “soury” and “weird”.  This is news we needed to hear. 

Sidebar:  In the same interview, he also talked about his weight.  “I usually hang out around 135, 134, I go up to about 140, and when I hit 148, I get fat face.”  I don’t understand Pete Wentz because sometimes he’s all  “I’m bi but I don’t actually hook up with dudes because I don’t like penises” and then this summer he was like “Yeah, I am a Fag” on the cover of Out but he’s married and has a kid.  So, not that I care, but his orientation has been a mystery to me.  Thankfully, he’s alleviated any confusion I may have been feeling by using the term “fat face”.

Last week on Howard Stern’s show, he launched his Just So You Know, I’m Really, Really Straight campaign by letting everyone know that though he and Ashlee aren’t back to having sex just yet, he is getting some blow jobs.  ”We have such sexual chemistry.  If we had been on this show last year, we’d probably be doing it in the green room right now.”  And my favorite line of all:  “I hope the kid doesn’t change it.”  Trust me Pete, the kid will change everything.

“It was the single best sexual encounter I’ve ever had. We were in the Soho Grand Hotel, and there was a mirror, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, you’re banging the girl of your dreams and you’re watching it right now.’”

Pete Wentz, talking to Howard Stern about the first time he had sex with his wife/baby mama Ashlee Simpson.

He also commented on their decision not to sell their baby’s pictures. “At this point, it was not the right decision for us to go out and pimp our baby in that way,” he said. “That’s not to say that the world’s not going to see the baby … or fans aren’t going to see the baby, but he’s not a commodity.”

Rock on, Pete. I like this kid more and more these days.

Miz Simpson-Wentz was all wrapped up in layers of black at the opening of Pete Wentz and Travis McCoy’s art exhibit at Gallery 1988 in WeHo. She also made damn sure the camera always caught her in profile — never face-on.

I guess I can appreciate her position — and it’s cool that she came out to support her hubby rather than hiding at home because she hadn’t yet lost the baby weight. But, seriously, Ash, you just had the baby like twenty seconds ago. If anyone dares to call you fat right now, I will personally bitch them out, and I’m a really mean blogger. Your “I’m fat because I had a baby” card is valid for at least a couple more months, sweetheart. Don’t sweat it.

Also there: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden. Nicole looks so much older lately. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s not that she looks wrinkly or haggard or anything. It’s her eyes. There’s so much more maturity there these day. She looks peaceful for the first time since we were introduced to her. Nice to see.

“It was a happy accident. But I think that certain things happen for a reason in your life, and maybe it was time to put the wild child in a cage … Dude, after Heath Ledger, I was just like, ‘Man, this is not going to end up good.’”

Pete Wentz, talking to the December issue of Details magazine about his new baby, and how it’s helped him slow down on the partying.

He also talks about how he’s not going to do a reality show about his life with Ashlee, thank goodness!!! “I get pitched, like, Newlyweds 2 once a week, dude,” he says. “For like, move-to-an-island-after-this money. I just can’t do it.” GOOD CHOICE!!!